La Farfalla

Chapter 003

[7/26/2014]

"Alright, I'm pretty sure everyone's here. Now, let's commence the experiments!"

"I'm not really interested, I'm only here because Mark is here."

"Ava, you should learn how to appreciate science even more."

Mirai interrupted, "Let's begin the experiments already!"

"Shut up, lab assistant."

"Since when was I your assistant, huh?!", she angrily responded.

"Since the day you were born, redhead."

Mirai grew silent, and she was blushing a little bit. Perhaps I went too hard on her.

"Connor, I was able to send you a message to the past right?"

"Yes, indeed so."

"I have come up with an idea, to confirm that this works by sending you the winning numbers of the lottery last week. That way, we can also pay for the rent and future investments for our lab!"

Connor suggested that we only aim for 2nd place, or else we'll look suspicious.

"Mirai, do you agree with the succession of this idea?"

"Sure."

"Very well. It seems that the winning numbers for the second place are 823578345. That's about $5,000."

I inputted the message into the phone, and hit the send button as it was attached to the microwave.

Once again, my vision was clouded with darkness, and a string of numbers were flowing in my mind like rivers.

[6:40 PM]

I woke up in the very same place.

"Alright, so did it work?"

"What do you mean?", said Connor.

"You know, the lottery."

"Oh, I just received a message like 3 days ago, and I believe we won second place."

It actually worked.

This thing is powerful...

I'm going to conquer the world with this power! Hahahahaha!

"I can't believe it... Time travel isn't nonsense...?" said Mirai.

"Indeed, now submit to defeat, you peasant!"

"..."

"Hahahahah! Let's celebrate tonight for the discovery of this scientific breakthrough!"

Ava and Mirai went to the convenience store to buy some snacks, while Connor and I were fixing the room.

[7:09 PM]

As we were finished decorating the room, Ava and Mirai came at just the right time.

"Oi, your decorating skills are pretty bad. Where's the decorations? The floor isn't that clean either, all you did was move away some stuff."

"Whatever, we're not that rich, okay?"

Our food wasn't that of a gourmet style meal, it was just convenience store food, especially that fried chicken that Ava likes a lot.

*thump*

I saw the door to our apartment getting knocked open, and we were greeted by a group of men in black suits and shades pointing guns at us.

"Don't move. Hands in the air."

"Mark, what the hell is going on?", Mirai whispered to me.

"I don't know!"